{"product_id":"narrating-desire-sol-miguel-prendes-9781469651958","title":"Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain","description":"\u003ci\u003eNarrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction. It traces its origin to late-medieval education in rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine as the foundation for virtuous living. In establishing the genre's boundaries and cultural underpinnings, \u003ci\u003eNarrating Desire\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the crucial link between Eastern and Western Iberian sentimental traditions, and offers close readings of a vast array of Catalan and Castilian fictions, translations, narrative poems, letters, and doctrinal treatises: the Catalan translations of Boethius's \u003ci\u003eConsolation of Philosophy, \u003c\/i\u003e Santillana's \u003ci\u003eEl sueno, \u003c\/i\u003e Bernat Metge's \u003ci\u003eLo somni, \u003c\/i\u003e Romeu Llull's \u003ci\u003eLo despropiament d'amor, \u003c\/i\u003e Pedro Moner's \u003ci\u003eLa noche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eL'anima d'Oliver, \u003c\/i\u003e Rodriguez del Padron's \u003ci\u003eSiervo libre de amor, \u003c\/i\u003e Carros Pardo de la Casta's \u003ci\u003eRegoneixenca, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRois de Corella's \u003ci\u003eParlament\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTragedia de Caldesa, \u003c\/i\u003e Pedro de Portugal's \u003ci\u003eSatira, \u003c\/i\u003e Francesc Alegre's \u003ci\u003eSomni\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRaonament, \u003c\/i\u003e Pere Torroella's correspondence, and the well-known works by Diego de San Pedro (\u003ci\u003eArnalte y Lucenda; Carcel de Amor\u003c\/i\u003e) and Juan de Flores (\u003ci\u003eGrisel y Mirabella; Grimalte y Gradissa\u003c\/i\u003e) among others. From them, Miguel-Prendes singles out a group of dream visions whose interpretive and compositional practices sire the sentimental genre. Social interactions lead to either a consolatory or a sentimental form, which imply very different ways of seeing: the allegorical gaze of consolation gives way to narrative fiction. In distorting moral conversion, the sentimental genre heralds the nove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sol Miguel-Prendes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469651955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469651958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Sol Miguel-Prendes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052631421183,"sku":"9781469651958","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dad9ba28-36b0-46c3-a1ac-c2bbc708cf42.jpg?v=1685019924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrating-desire-sol-miguel-prendes-9781469651958","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}